Project Joey - Mozilla Developing New Mobile Browsing Experience

Posted by: PatrickJ on Aug 16 2007

 

Via: Mashable

Project Joey is a very cool looking idea from Mozilla (makers of Firefox).  The basic concept with Joey is to “customize your mobile experience based upon the browsing you’re already doing on the desktop”.

The *very* condensed deal with Joey is: you install Joey as a Firefox add-on, then install it to your phone device, then very quickly and easily mark whole pages, or just selected text on a page, or a specific area of a page, or RSS feeds, video and media content etc, then with one right-click or a click on Joey’s system tray icon, you tell it to add that to your Joey content. Then the Joey server makes it all nice and pretty and easy to look at on a mobile device.

This short video gives a very nice overview:

Project Joey, Customize Your Mobile Web Experience - Tutorial from AirMozilla and Vimeo.

Read on for a few screencaps of Joey on an 8525 and some more details ….

Here’s some quick Joey screencaps:

 

The first screen is of my Joey ‘main page’ where I can scroll through content items I’ve added back on the desktop. The second is Mashable’s page nicely formatted by Joey.

You can also upload files from your mobile device to Joey.

Joey is in its ‘early stages of development’ - so you need to consider that and expect a few glitches / bugs with it. 

I only messed around with Joey for a little while tonight, but it looks really promising. One quick tip - I did not have a lot of luck using the button to send the Joey download link by SMS to my phone. Much easier to just right-click it and email it to myself.

As a big fan of Firefox, and small kangaroos, I’m hoping Joey will live up to its initial promise.

For more information, see:

Mashable’s post

Project Joey Wiki

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